Literature on Sentencing for Sexual Crimes
• Violation of Child Rights in implementing the law relating to Statutory Rape Report, Lawyers for
Human Rights and Development Colombo (2003);
• “Justice Suspended”? A Study on Suspended Sentences for Sexual Offences, Lawyers for Human
Rights and Development Colombo (2012).
(x) Homosexuality
Case:
• Galabada Wimalasiri v O.I.C. Maradana (30.11.2016) (S.C.)
Literature
• Goonesekera S. Senanayaka L. and de Silva H. cited earlier p. 69
(xi) Women Heads of Household, Widows and Girls in Non-Marital Families
Literature
• T. Tambiah, Sexuality and Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka, Reproductive Health
Matters,(2004) Vol. 12 No. 23, 78.
• Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commisssion LLRC Report, (2010) discussed in Review of the
Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action 1995-2014, CENWOR (2015) Section I Human
Rights of Women p. 161 at 187, Section E Women and Armed Conflict p.222 at 227.
• A Socio-Legal study on the Head of Household Concept in Sri Lanka, Colombo COHRE (2008)
• S.Goonesekere, Sri Lanka Women’s Rights to Housing and Land in Chartering Pathways to Gender
Equality CENWOR 2010 p.25
(xii) Gender Based Violence and Pregnancy
Literature
• Goonesekere S. Senanayake L. and de Silva H. cited earlier p.78, 135, 95 (informed consent to
medical treatment and blood tests) p.81 (privacy and confidentiality) p.95, 179,(testing for STD
and HIV) p. 131-135, 141-144, Birth and Marriages Registration and Registration of Birth and Early
Marriages p. 113-120 (family planning and contraception) Abortion (p.149-155, 157-159).
• G.L. Peiris Offences under the Penal Code of Sri Lanka, Stamford Lake Colombo Ltd.
1973 p.142-143.
• Reducing the Burdens of Unsafe Abortions in Sri Lanka, Family Planning Association and WHO
Colombo 2008.
• Ramya Kumar, Misoprostol and the Policies of Abortion in Sri Lanka, Reproductive Health
Matters,(2012) Vol. 20 No. 40 p.166 (registration of drugs and unsafe abortion).
• Y. Tambiah Sexuality and Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka cited earlier.
• ICPD, 15 years on Sri Lanka cited earlier Chapters 3,4,5,7
4. Procedural Laws and Practices
(i) Criminal Trial and Procedures:
Legislation
• Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. 15 of 1979
• Evidence Ordinance 1895
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